No specific Escher connection, but look at the weirdness of that hot dog stand. What is the $1 sign attached to? Why is the stand missing a corner? What happened to the back?

I guess only For Better or for Worse has characters aging in real time. To me, the most troubling thing about Hi and Lois is that the delightful Lois Flagston is Beetle Bailey's sister. I still can't believe it.

That's a trashy hot dog stand, look at the discarded hubcaps leaning against it! My first thought was also that the hot dog man is simply part of a poster on the back of the stand, because that (Strangely - I mean, why advertise a man with a weird old-fashioned mustache holding a cup for a dollar?) makes the most sense. I think that's supposed to be their money that the man is holding, too, which makes it worse (Maybe it's a check? Hot dog vendors take checks, right?).

And, let's not forget, the soda and chips are free with your one-dollar hot dog (Why else would there be those "--" slashes?). The hot dogs must be terrible! As evidenced by the huge dollop of sweat or mayonnaise falling from one of the dogs.

“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”

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